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Fairness and privacy are two important concerns in social decision-making processes such as resource allocation. We study privacy in the fair allocation of indivisible resources using the well-established framework of differential privacy.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Pasin Manurangsi , Warut Suksompong

We consider the problem of fair allocation of indivisible goods to agents with submodular valuation functions, where agents may have either equal entitlements or arbitrary (possibly unequal) entitlements. We focus on share-based fairness…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Gilad Ben Uziahu , Uriel Feige

We consider a fair division setting in which $m$ indivisible items are to be allocated among $n$ agents, where the agents have additive utilities and the agents' utilities for individual items are independently sampled from a distribution.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Pasin Manurangsi , Warut Suksompong

We study a fair resource scheduling problem, where a set of interval jobs are to be allocated to heterogeneous machines controlled by agents. Each job is associated with release time, deadline, and processing time such that it can be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Bo Li , Minming Li , Ruilong Zhang

We study the fair allocation of indivisible items to $n$ agents to maximize the utilitarian social welfare, where the fairness criterion is envy-free up to one item and there are only two different utility functions shared by the agents. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Jiaxuan Ma , Yong Chen , Guangting Chen , Mingyang Gong , Guohui Lin , An Zhang

We consider the problem of fair allocation of $m$ indivisible items to a group of $n$ agents with subsidy (money). Our work mainly focuses on the allocation of chores but most of our results extend to the allocation of goods as well. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Xiaowei Wu , Cong Zhang , Shengwei Zhou

We consider the problem of partitioning an undirected graph (representing a social network) over $n$ nodes and max degree $\Delta$ into $k$ equally sized parts. Each node in the graph, representing an agent, derives utility proportional to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Vignesh Viswanathan

Fair allocation of indivisible goods studies allocating $m$ goods among $n$ agents in a fair manner. While fairness is a fundamental requirement in many real-world applications, it often conflicts with (economic) efficiency. This raises a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xiaolin Bu , Zihao Li , Shengxin Liu , Jiaxin Song , Biaoshuai Tao

We investigate the tradeoffs between fairness and efficiency when allocating indivisible items over time. Suppose T items arrive over time and must be allocated upon arrival, immediately and irrevocably, to one of n agents. Agent i assigns…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-18 David Zeng , Alexandros Psomas

In an online fair allocation problem, a sequence of indivisible items arrives online and needs to be allocated to offline agents immediately and irrevocably. In our paper, we study the online allocation of either goods or chores. We employ…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yuanyuan Wang , Tianze Wei

We study the problem of fairly and efficiently allocating a set of items among strategic agents with additive valuations, where items are either all indivisible or all divisible. When items are goods, numerous positive and negative results…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Bo Li , Biaoshuai Tao , Fangxiao Wang , Xiaowei Wu , Mingwei Yang , Shengwei Zhou

We introduce the study of designing allocation mechanisms for fairly allocating indivisible goods in settings with interdependent valuation functions. In our setting, there is a set of goods that needs to be allocated to a set of agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Georgios Birmpas , Tomer Ezra , Stefano Leonardi , Matteo Russo

We study fair division of indivisible goods in a single-parameter environment. In particular, we develop truthful social welfare maximizing mechanisms for fairly allocating indivisible goods. Our fairness guarantees are in terms of solution…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Siddharth Barman , Ganesh Ghalme , Shweta Jain , Pooja Kulkarni , Shivika Narang

Allocating resources to individuals in a fair manner has been a topic of interest since ancient times, with most of the early mathematical work on the problem focusing on resources that are infinitely divisible. Over the last decade, there…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Georgios Amanatidis , Haris Aziz , Georgios Birmpas , Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Bo Li , Hervé Moulin , Alexandros A. Voudouris , Xiaowei Wu

Fairly dividing a set of indivisible resources to a set of agents is of utmost importance in some applications. However, after an allocation has been implemented the preferences of agents might change and envy might arise. We study the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Niclas Boehmer , Robert Bredereck , Klaus Heeger , Dušan Knop , Junjie Luo

In the classic problem of fair cake-cutting, a single interval ("cake") has to be divided among n agents with different value measures, giving each agent a single sub-interval with a value of at least 1/n of the total. This paper studies a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-19 Erel Segal-Halevi

We study the fair allocation of a cake, which serves as a metaphor for a divisible resource, under the requirement that each agent should receive a contiguous piece of the cake. While it is known that no finite envy-free algorithm exists in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Paul W. Goldberg , Alexandros Hollender , Warut Suksompong

We study the allocation of indivisible goods among groups of agents using well-known fairness notions such as envy-freeness and proportionality. While these notions cannot always be satisfied, we provide several bounds on the optimal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Pasin Manurangsi , Warut Suksompong

When allocating indivisible resources or tasks, an envy-free allocation or equitable allocation may not exist. We present a sufficient condition and an algorithm to achieve envy-freeness and equitability when monetary transfers are allowed.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Haris Aziz

We study the problem of allocating indivisible items on a path among agents. The objective is to find a fair and efficient allocation in which each agent's bundle forms a contiguous block on the line. We say that an instance is \emph{$(a,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yasushi Kawase , Bodhayan Roy , Mohammad Azharuddin Sanpui